Your daily digest of tech news, IT stories, and SaaS productivity tips.
| | Last week, Gartner Research published its 2021 edition of its Market Guide for SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs). As our Chief Business Strategy Officer Shreyas Sadalgi wrote, we're thrilled about the alignment of our vision to Gartner's category definition.
There's a lot to unpack in Gartner's latest research, and it's worth taking some time to dig into its findings on the SMP market. Want to dive in? Download your copy here. |
|
| | | Trello Updates Aim To Help You Organize Work Across All of Your Tools | | ZDNet | Trello is giving users the ability to look at boards in different ways. Initially built to serve as digital bulletin boards, Trello boards can now be visualized as a calendar, a map, a timeline, or as a dashboard. There's also "team table" view for projects that span multiple teams. Eventually, Trello plans to open up its API to let people visualize boards however they want to. | | SaaS Management Platforms 2021: Discover, Manage & Secure Your SaaS Apps | | BetterCloud Monitor | Last week, Gartner published the 2021 edition of its Market Guide for SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs). In this report, “Gartner defines SMPs as stand-alone tools that can discover, manage, and secure multiple SaaS applications from a central admin dashboard, delivered as a turnkey service.” Here’s our full analysis and key takeaways from the report. | | The SaaSOps Show: Automating Employee Onboarding | | YouTube | BetterCloud’s dynamic IT duo, Justine & Brian, explain how they automate employee onboarding to give new hires access to all the apps they need. In a company that uses tons of SaaS apps—each with its own configuration and user access—automation is the only way to go. Spoiler alert: They use BetterCloud to do this. See how! | | LastPass Free Will No Longer Sync Mobile and PC Passwords at the Same Time | | Neowin | When the change goes into effect on March 16, LastPass Free users will be asked to choose an active device type, and it will begin syncing passwords across devices of the same type. If you have a phone, tablet, and smartwatch, passwords will be able to sync across all of those devices. On the other hand, if you choose a PC as your active device type, you'll be able to sync passwords across as many PCs as you want. | | Hackers Targeted IT Monitoring Company Centreon To Breach Organizations Over 3 Year Period | | VentureBeat | Hackers have spent up to three years breaking into organizations by targeting monitoring software made by the French company Centreon, France’s cybersecurity watchdog said on Monday. The watchdog, known by its French acronym ANSSI, stopped short of identifying the hackers but said they had a similar modus operandi as the Russian cyberespionage group often nicknamed “Sandworm.” |
|
|
| | | Time-Blocking Not Working? Try These 8 Productivity Techniques Instead | | MakeUseOf | Time-blocking doesn’t work for everyone. For some, planning every single minute can lead to higher levels of stress. A lack of flexibility can also cause problems when reactive jobs need completing or if something unexpected happens—like the internet going down. If you feel like time-blocking doesn’t work for you, here are eight productivity techniques you can try to using instead. | | How To Use Your iPhone or iPad as a Webcam in Microsoft Teams on Windows 10 | | OnMSFT | The folks at OnMSFT recently wrote about how you could use an Android phone (or even a Kinect!) as a webcam in Microsoft Teams in Windows 10. They promised they'd follow up to explain how iPhone or iPad users, could do the same, but through a little more complicated process — and with some limits. So, here’s a look at how. |
|
|
|
